[Bug 33024] bcm43xx driver trying to allocate DMA memory above 1G

[Nicholas Reid]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33024

Comment:
The memory allocation error message is produced when using ifconfig to
bring up the interface:

nr at kanchen:~$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate memory

nr at kanchen:~$dmesg
...
[4319317.157000] bcm43xx: >>>FATAL ERROR<<<  DMA RINGMEMORY >1G (0x4c0c4000, len: 4096)

nr at kanchen:~$ lsmod|grep bcm
bcm43xx               113680  0
ieee80211softmac       28544  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              35144  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac